The word 'soprano' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to refer to a type of high-pitched singing voice or the highest range of musical notes. Example: The soprano's solo aria received a standing ovation from the audience. In this sentence, 'soprano' is used as an adjective to describe the high-pitched or highest range singing voice of the performer.
The short work for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra will be performed in the Olympic stadium-sized equestrian centre beside the derelict Necarne castle, a space she described as "amazing – and with a perfect acoustic".
Read Emmeline Pankhurst's My Own Story (what resolve! and through her 50s...), put A Feather On The Breath Of God on the deck with Emma Kirkby's ringing soprano, and marvel at the composer Abbess Hildegard Von Bingen, whose main life's work started at 40, but whose achievements ensure that she is still in our minds almost 1,000 years later.
She also likes to sing gospel - soprano style - and puts in a fairly physical performance.
While stars like Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood received the applause and record royalties for their work in musicals such as The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, it was Nixon's soprano who sang their songs uncredited, often after signing a contract never to disclose the ruse.
Not many nights out can promise a show of tricks by Uri Geller, a set from the Gypsy Kings and a performance by a French soprano singing a mix of "archaic opera and modern trance".
Of these, Norman is by far the best-known, but given that the former banker and philosophy don has no media and arts jobs (sitting on boards apart) on his CV, only an unfortunate confusion with a legendary African-American soprano with an almost identical name can explain why the Old Etonian has been daftly mentioned as a culture chair contender.
LEANDRA RAMM (pictured) is a mezzo-soprano with more on her mind than music.
Marina Prudenskaya, a Russian mezzo-soprano, produced a Marie who was less manipulative whore than caring but flawed mother, while Michael Volle, a German baritone, emphasised Wozzeck's oppression with his constant crouching.
A self-described "poet, mezzo-soprano, designer and exotic Uzbekistan beauty", she appears dolled-up in music videos to the thumping backing of hackneyed techno music.
Rosenkavalier tells the tale of the middle-aged Marschallin and her much younger lover Octavian (sung by a mezzo-soprano).
Despite the peaceful nature of their actions, the simple act of protesting means that activists' lives sometimes resemble that of Tony Soprano.
